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...London insurance corporation famed for willingness to write a policy on anything, upped its rates last week on insurance against twins. Reason for the upping, according to a Lloyd's spokesman, was Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt's recent success in finding out by means of X-ray that she would have twins- (TIME, Feb. 16). Hereafter Lloyd's will ensure against twins, triplets or other multiple births at the new high rate only if a policy is sought in earliest stages. "Much of our business of this character," said Lloyd's spokesman, "comes from the United...
...lengths of the radio waves used in ordinary U. S. broadcasting range between 200 and 547 metres. Short-wave broadcasting uses waves around 50 metres in length. Last week "micro" rays only 18 centimetres (7.09 in.) long carried two-way conversations across the English Channel. International Telephone & Telegraph Laboratories and Le Matériel Télephonique of France made the test. Simple equipment did the work. Sending and receiving devices were practically the same. Each device consisted of a vacuum tube which transformed telephone frequency into the high micro-ray frequency of 1,600,000,000 oscillations a second...
...opinion there were no genuine Rembrandts in the Metropolitan; further, that there were only 35 genuine Rembrandts in the world.* And in the past six or seven years a Scotch chemist named Arthur P. Laurie has been travelling from museum to museum with his microscope, his X-ray and ultra violet machines, casting doubt upon half the Rembrandts of Europe...
...Baltimore Dr. Ray Morton Balyeat of the University of Oklahoma Medical School said he had examined 2,728 migraine victims and figured that the U. S. had 4,000.000 of them. He believes that a relationship exists between the headaches and asthma, hay fever, eczema and other allergic disorders. At least he has prevented attacks of migraine by easing attacks of the allergies...
...wished with electrons and protons. At that temperature matter's subunits dance around each other and coalesce as atoms; atoms break up into their electron and proton elements; and every explosion, every coalescence scatters atomic energy. Professor Compton cannot duplicate solar heat, but with a mighty X-ray tube, he calculates, he can drive particles of matter at speeds so nearly solar that new atoms will result. His tool will be a 10,000-volt tube, five times the size of the tube whose description won the American Association for the Advancement of Science's $1,000 prize...